[Xen-users] Re: Ubuntu Gutsy as dom0 - the saga continues

[GNUbie <gnubie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

On 10/8/07, GNUbie <gnubie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello all,

I am currently running Ubuntu Gutsy AMD64 as my dom0 and planning to have the following domUs:

[1] Debian Etch AMD64

I already have this bootstrapped on an LVM partition but when I tried booting this domU, i got stucked on the following last 5 lines:

[ 1052.106617] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 1052.277716] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[ 1052.283791] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1056 buckets, 8448 max)
[ 1057.911614] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 1057.911724] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

My configs are the following:

# cat /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
(network-script network-nat)
(vif-script     vif-nat)
(dom0-min-mem 196)
(dom0-cpus 0)

# cat /etc/xen/auto/domU1.conf
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-13-xen"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-13-xen"
memory = "256"
name = "host"
vif = [ 'ip= 172.16.1.11' ]
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/domU1/domU1_root,sda1,w', 'phy:/dev/domU1/domU1_swap,sda2,w', 'phy:/dev/domU1/domU1_tmp,sda3,w', 'phy:/dev/domU1/domU1_usr,sda5,w', 'phy:/dev/domU1/domU1_var,sda6,w' ]
hostname = "host.domain.com"
root = "/dev/sda1 rw"
ip = "172.16.1.11"
gateway = " 172.16.1.1"
netmask = "255.255.255.0"
>on_reboot   = "restart"
on_crash    = "restart"

# xm list
Name                                      ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0  1749     2     r-----    199.2
host                                        5   256     1     -b----     10.2

# xm info
host                   : workstation
release                : 2.6.22-13-xen
version                : #1 SMP Thu Oct 4 19:28:28 GMT 2007
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 2
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 2
cores_per_socket       : 1
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 1991
hw_caps                : 078bfbff:e1d3fbff:00000000:00000010
total_memory           : 2047
free_memory            : 0
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 1
xen_extra              : .0
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2
cc_compile_by          : buildd
cc_compile_domain      : buildd
cc_compile_date        : Mon Oct  8 09:56:06 GMT 2007
xend_config_format     : 4

[2] CentOS 5 AMD64

Next in line... 

[3] MS Windows XP 32bit

This is not possible since I just found out that my processor is not HVM compatible.

My question are the following:

[1] Is it possible that for domU [1] and [2] (above) to use their own stock kernel and not using dom0's kernel?

This is not possible because I just found out that it requires an HVM processor.

[2] Any tips you can share on how to install different GNU/Linux distributions as the domUs?

Other tips for a para-virtualization setup using Xen-3.1 on Ubuntu Gutsy AMD64 dom0?

[3] Can I install MS Windows XP 32bit as domU even if my hardware is an AMD64 machine?

Again, this is not possible because I just found out that it requires an HVM processor.

[4] Can I make use of the CD-ROM drive, sound card and USB ports from the MS Windows XP 32bit domU?

And again, this is not possible because I just found out that it requires an HVM processor.

Please advice.

Thank you.

GNUbie
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